Underworld Detective

Double burial

Just when I was thinking about what was wrong with this skeleton, my grandfather said: “Yang'er, you can judge, what did this man do in his life, and how did he die? Is it a man or a woman, and if it is a person, has he ever been born? If it is a child, how old was he when he died, what diseases did he have before he died, how much do you know and how much to say."

“Grandpa, are you testing me?" I asked.

“That is it!" Grandpa took a light cigarette.

I thought to myself, this exam is too f*****g chic, right? He dragged me out of bed in the middle of the night and took me to the mass grave to dig other people's graves. I do not think a second grandfather would do this kind of thing.

“Look now, the cold air in this place is too heavy, I am afraid my old bones cannot bear it if I stay for a long time." Speaking, grandpa stomped his feet hard.

I calmed down and looked at the skeleton. There are some suspicious movements around the mass grave from time to time, and the gloomy atmosphere here is very affecting people! But as I calmed down, I gradually get rid of all these disturbances.

This skeleton that I put together is 1.8 meters long from head to toe. I think this person was a big and tall man when he was alive, but his feet are very small. This is really unscientific. The soles of the human feet and the height are about a fixed ratio of one to seven. The higher the height, the longer the sole of the foot, unless this person made his feet into three-inch golden lotuses like women in ancient times when they bound their feet.

I do not bother about this for the time being, and I will determine the gender of the person. Judging from the thickness of the joints, my first reaction is that of a man, but when I look at the diastolic pelvis, it is clearly a female characteristic, and there is still a pubic bone, a scar from childbirth!

I picked up the skull to confirm the age, and judging from the wear and tear of the teeth, it was an adult in his early thirties. However, looking at the thigh bone, the bone is slightly lighter, which is a sign of calcium loss, and it has been bent due to stress for many years. These characteristics are clearly of an elder person, which is too strange ……

What is even more annoying is the person's arms, with thick joints, which should be the characteristics of the leg bones. Could this person walk on all fours since he was born?

This skeleton is full of contradictions from head to toe, everywhere, making people unsure as they look at it, but suddenly, I understand Grandpa's intention, this exam will never be that simple, and I already have an answer in my heart!

After squatting for too long, I felt dizzy when I stood up, my eyes were black and my legs were as stiff as rocks. Grandpa threw a cigarette butt in front of him, so I unknowingly squatted there and watched for half an hour.

“How is it going, Yang'er?" Grandpa asked.

“This person is about thirty years old. He is both a man and a woman. After he was born, he lived in captivity for many years, walked on four legs, ate rough food, gave birth to seven or eight children, and was later drowned by water, and then hacked to death."

“Is this your conclusion?" grandpa sneered.

“Yes, because this is not a person at all!" I said.

“Oh?" grandpa is interested: “Tell me, why is he not alone."

Except for the head, all the parts of this skeleton are borrowed from animals, the legs are from sheep, the hands are from pigs, and the pelvis is from another old sow. The hands and feet are pieced together with broken bones, it may have come from cats and dogs.

If you have to judge the cause of this person's death, judging from the fractured wound on the neck bone, he was killed by beheading.

After listening to me, my grandfather nodded in relief: “You can be taught, the ancients said. It is better to have no books than to believe in books. If you cannot even tell the bones of humans and animals, it is a waste of time to tell you more. Very good, very good, and the Song family will have a successor."

“But grandpa …… " I said the doubts in my heart: “What the hell is going on with this skeleton?"

Grandpa took a breath from his cigarette and told the origin of the bizarre skeleton ——

It was thirty years ago.

At that time, there was a villager named Huang San in the poplar village near the county seat. Huang San was an idle bachelor who knew nothing except drinking, gambling and climbing over the widow's wall in the middle of the night, when he was less than twenty years old, he died of anger.

Of course, this kid did not get a wife, he borrowed money all day long and the villagers disliked him very much. Huang San could not get along in the village, so he went out to work. He worked in this construction site for two days and in that restaurant for two days. Two money to go to gamble.

Once he ran away with a gambling debt of 5,000 yuan, and the creditor chased after him to the village to ask for money. At that time, it was a huge sum of money, enough to build a few nice houses in the countryside, and none of his relatives and friends wanted to carry the pot for him and said they did not know him.

A few days later, someone found a black plastic bag on the side of the mountain road with a b****y human head in it, and immediately called the police! The police took a photo and published a notice of corpse identification in the newspaper. A distant uncle of Huang San recognized that the head was Huang San. This kid was probably killed by the creditor. Everyone thought that this kid killed himself and coupled with the conservative thinking of the villagers, they did not file a lawsuit, the police did not file an investigation and the murder was gone.

Huang San's head was sent back to the village. Everyone felt that the Huang family was too miserable, so the incense was cut off. Huang San did not leave a whole body when he died. Some people found out that Huang San's mother was from Chaoshan, so according to the customs of Chaoshan, they gave him a 'double burial', that is using the bones of other animals to put together a body for him. It is considered to let him be buried so that he could live in peace after his death.

After talking about the origin of this skeleton, my grandfather asked me to bury Huang San's bones back. After I buried them, he took out a pile of yellow paper from his arms, lit a match, and placed it on the grave, saying: “Brother Huang San, what a disturbance. I know that you died wrongly, and that you have no children behind you. This is probably a despised offering. When you arrive on your sacrificial day next year, I will definitely ask some monks and priests to do things for you to save you and cross over your dead!"

As soon as the voice fell, a cloudy wind rose for no reason, blowing the firelight swaying, I seemed to hear a faint cry mixed in the wind, wrapped in paper dust and floated to the sky.

I was stunned by this scene. Grandpa pressed my head and asked me to kowtow a few times to apologize.

After I got up, the strange wind had disappeared, and I asked my grandfather in a trembling voice: “Is there really a ghost in this world?"

“If you believe in some things you could have them and if you do not believe in then you won't have them. But Yang'er, you have to remember that examining a corpse is an offense to the dead! Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a sense of awe at all times in order to be worthy of the heaven and earth.”

I nodded: “I remember!"

But my mind changed, does this mean that I can become a forensic doctor in the future, so I asked: “Grandpa, I also passed your test, then I can you be a forensic doctor for Uncle Sun in the future?"

“No, absolutely not, the ancestral teachings of the Song family can never be violated!" Grandpa shouted sharply.